Diagnosis
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Test ovate in outline, sides flattened to concave, periphery bluntly rounded, chambers one-half coil in length, widest at the base that curves to occupy much of the aboral end, tapering toward the aperture and produced as a short tubular neck; wall calcareous, imperforate, surface granular in appearance; aperture terminal on the short neck, multiple, with a trematophorelike plate in the opening. Holocene; Pacific: off Samoa. (Loeblich & Tappan, 1987, Foraminiferal Genera and Their Classification)
Loeblich, A. R.; Tappan, H. (1987). Foraminiferal Genera and their Classification. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York. 970pp.
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